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By SHERRY BOSCHERT

Sherry Boschert is the author of “37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination.” She lives in Lebanon. Republicans in the state House of Representatives recently narrowly passed a bill targeting transgender kids on a party-line...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

Before she moved to Hanover, Susan Gillotti was hesitant.“I said that I wanted to move a continuing care retirement community in New Hampshire, but I was really afraid of doing it because I’d lose my entitlement to medical aid in dying,” said...

By NICOLA SMITH

LEBANON — In 2013, Alastair Huntley was struggling with depression and an overreliance on medication after being prescribed opioids after surgery for a knee injury, which left him in pain. Then a student at Norwich University in Northfield, Vt.,...

By RICHARD BIRCHER

Richard Bircher lives in Lebanon. The notion that our public school system has been, and is to remain, equated with a comprehensive social virtue, universally acknowledged and appreciated, is no longer the case. To a significant degree, public...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CONCORD — The former head of one of the Upper Valley’s leading charities has pleaded guilty to embezzling donations, acknowledging that he spent the money for personal use and to gamble at a casino in western Massachusetts.In U.S. District Court in...

By RICHARD BIRCHER

Richard Bircher lives in Lebanon. That our local taxes have risen this year is not the primary jest of this essay, though this increase, along with the previous ones, is certainly of concern.Surely, any full-fledged adult recognizes the necessary...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Fitch ratings downgraded Dartmouth Health’s outlook from stable to negative last week.The outlook change was due to weak operating cash flow with operating losses that accelerated in fiscal year 2023, according to the Dec. 13 rating action...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

PLAINFIELD — One day in this past May, Susan Kahn, a 77-year-old Plainfield resident, was unable to get up.Her husband, Chris Rollins, called 911. She was unconscious with heart palpitations and says there were no Upper Valley cardiologists available...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Dartmouth Health continues to see a financial loss on operations, but the red ink has subsided substantially since last year, according to filings with bondholders last week.For the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, which ended Sept. 30, DH...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

New Hampshire’s casino industry – 14 charitable gaming halls across the state and counting – is experiencing significant growth, with revenues reaching new heights year after year.Casinos grossed $54 million in 2022, which is about $10 million more...

By FRANCES MIZE

WEST LEBANON — Brittany Silvio, 37, was hoping for a relaxing river-side evening with her son and daughter at the end of a sweltering day, but the Connecticut River, elevated by last week’s flooding and weeks of heavy rainfall, had plans of its...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Emergency responders rescued three people aboard a pontoon boat that was caught amid high waters on the Mascoma River dam on Wednesday morning.The boat’s owner, Leroy Hawksley, 79, of Windsor, said the group put the boat in the water at...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Sherri Cheney was awed by the sight of towering mounds of food scraps mixed with ground-up wood chips from demolition debris, reaching a height of at least 7 feet at Lebanon's Transfer Station. These piles of waste were being converted into...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — As part of a restructuring effort to address a budget deficit, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics are laying off 75 workers and eliminating about 100 vacant positions, according to a message Dartmouth Health’s...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — On a recent afternoon in late April, “Felix” lay in a new hospital room in the recently completed patient pavilion at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.Short of breath, but in stable condition, Felix was in a bed in the heart and vascular...

By JIM KENYON

Coke or Pepsi? Then again perhaps Mountain Dew is your soft drink of choice. And there’s always an oldie but goodie like Orange Crush.Compared to just a few years ago, it’s a whole lot easier now for employees, patients and visitors at...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center has been operating at 110% of its capacity for several weeks amid a surge of respiratory viruses and short staffing, and as it continues to be difficult to discharge patients to lower levels of care, such...

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NORTH HAVERHILL — A Grafton County Superior Court judge recently set aside Scott Traudt’s 2008 conviction for assaulting a Lebanon police officer, putting an end to Traudt’s yearslong effort to clear his name and his record a decade and a half after...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WEST LEBANON — Twin State educators say they are unsurprised by the National Assessment of Educational Progress scores released in the fall, which showed declines in reading and math scores between 2019 and 2021, before and amid the COVID-19...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

A class-action lawsuit filed last week against Dartmouth-Hitchcock alleges the Lebanon-based health care system mismanaged as much as $1.9 billion in employees’ retirement funds.In the complaint, filed in federal court in Concord on March 18, the...